Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] take [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds
2 I would reckon I 'll be finished with Norman about ten o'clock it takes me an hour and a half to drive down half past eleven say I 'm in here about twelve o'clock right , cheers
3 Anyway it took us an hour and twenty minutes to get there , it took us forty minutes to get home .
4 Coming home it took me a bit longer cos it was all that delay at the hill .
5 It 's a great shame that when we are presented with er a problem , when we 're out on site , we actually forget all these things and , and I think that probably it took you an hour or so yesterday to actually recognise , oh yes , I need this and I need this and I need this .
6 Well wo n't it take him a lot longer than going to Cramley ?
7 Rather it takes us a step away from understanding him .
8 And they 're coming I do n't think I 'm taking for a couple of months , and then I take them every fortnight .
9 Right then I take it the minutes of the last Annual General Meeting haven been circulated already ?
10 If you 're buying them as young plants which are probably a foot fifteen inches high then it takes them a couple of years to get the roots established .
11 Electronic Mail ( E-mail ) is probably the least easy to configure under Mainlan , and indeed it took me a while to sort out exactly what was required to get a sensible system running .
12 to me that 's where they took her the first time , they did n't take her right on the the roads , you know , the first time she 'd
13 Once installed , back in 1976 , they began the long and laborious process of renovating it themselves , without any professional help , which partly explains why it took them the best part of 10 years .
14 I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match .
15 Ministers had rejected the report but politically it took us the next two general elections to repair the damage .
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